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So yes, Battlefield 3 Premium is a thing. It costs $50, and for that you get early access to all five expansion packs – Armoured Kill, Aftermath, and End Game are appearing between now and March 2013 – as well as “exclusive in-game items”, exclusive events, and a lot of other stuff – double XP events and “tactics? And does all that add up to a new game’s worth of stuff? EA certainly seem to think so. Because I think I’d want a new game for that much cash. But perhaps I’m wrong, perhaps this is an essential purchase for the Battlefield 3 legions? Those expansions are certainly promising a lot of stuff – weapons, 20 maps, new vehicles and so on… Are you going to buy it? To the commentmobile!

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if i would even buy any ea game (imo they dont have a game in their portfolio which is worth any price over 40bucks) in the future, i d better wait til the dlcs drop down and save me some money. imo u just pay for preaccess extended to the point ea decides to “greenpepper” it , like many others before, which usually doesnt take a lot of time cos of shit-support – if theres is any haha – and/or shitproduct.

64 player rush is absolutely awesome on most maps. They arent the small affairs from bc2. They are epic with choppers, bombers everywhere. Its a totally different feeling, and its epic.

Rush in BC2 was narrow and focused. BF3 rush is quite large, and the mcoms have quite some distance between them. 64 players focused in an area, along with several aircraft, and vehicles created something completely unlike any battlefield game before it. Conquest is awesome, but 64 player Rush is amazing on the none infantry designed maps.

You missed out.

Its also a shame that some of the best parts of maps dont even get included in some of the conquest versions of the maps. They are some of the largest maps in battlefield ever, just some of them only show it in conquest.

You can try selling it to me all you like, but I know it’s just CoD with shinier graphics and vehicle combat thrown in. Which now apparently you have to pay more for to actually excel at I hear!

Bad Company 2 was all the Battlefield I needed, it was fun for a time but it got stale after a while especially when you wanted just some straight up infantry combat – the hit detection I’m betting is still broken. And oh hey, guess what some people are complaining about in BF3 right now even? Hit detection. It’s amazing isn’t it? The same problems of the last game pop up in the next one! Why it’s like the developers don’t actually care about the important workings in their game but just want bigger explosions to put on demo reels.

EA going back on their word that they’d never put price tags on new maps was the icing on the urinal cake.

Go ahead and tell yourself you’re playing something better than CoD, that you’re so much above those angry children with mics. It’s funny. Remember, you can’t change the spots on a shit leopard. Even with Direct X 11.

Every online fps has people complaining about hit detection. Go on youtube and you can find examples for every game. From the beloved counter strike to tf2. Tf2 is hilarious. You can be on the other side of the map before you die. Down 2 hallways and a room and be killed back there. The bigger and more popular the game. The more whiners there are and more noticable. This is an online issue not a bf3 issue.

ALso the fact you claim bf3 is a shinier cod with vehicles thrown in prove you have no idea what you are talking about. The gun play is entirely different. What makes a good COD player makes a terrible BF player.

No other online FPS has the same exact issues from the previous game carried over exactly to the next with half as much uniformity. The only issues I’ve had from other online shooters were lag-related – I go to another server or the spike passes, everything’s fine. Not in BF. Nope, the same thing reliably happened on every single server, every single playthrough.

The only thing different about the gunplay is you can blind people with a flashlight before looking through the sights and shooting them. Holy crap what a difference! Cut the fanboy shit. You want to play Generic Contemporary Military Shooter 15, fine. But trying to sell it to me is only making you look like an idiot.

Release game with very few maps (especially compared to the original) and half the vehicles missing and no mod support (DC had more vehicles than these packs combined) , then nickle and dime the SHIT out of people with 5 (wow) expansion packs, then offer them a “deal” to buy it all for ‘awesome value’ with ‘extras’.

Shameful, like most of the industry these days.
What was that again about cheapening intellectual property? Poor as hell value cheapens it a lot more.

BF3 was barely worth the 18 euros I paid for it and I’d never consider buying any of the expansions.

It seems that a lot of people coming in here to say they won’t buy it are people who aren’t actively playing/fans of the game anyway. Of course if you don’t like the game you’re not going to buy the season pass.

I’m more curious to see whether people who actively play/actually enjoy the game want to buy it. I don’t have any desire to buy Close Quarters so i’m going to wait and see if the price of the pack is the same by the time armoured kill comes out.

Also the fact that your playercard and profile are plastered with “premium player” all over it makes me feel like i’d be a walking advert.

“Own more” as a tagline seems a little disingenuous.
Surely they mean “License more content from us until we say you can no longer use it” – unless the EULA really will confirm that you own what you have paid EA for?

I uninstalled BF3 for a couple of reasons but mainly due to there are very few servers that are not running the new premium content. I refused to be forced into buying something.

Has anyone else noticed EA’s shares dive recently? As in, more so than usual?
In a nutshell, it’s time to buy EA shares, they’ll be worthless soon.

EA are failing and they are really failing, their only success stories are repackaged sports games (85% of their revenue are sports) and dumbed down console ports) ;

Problem #1 – Origin, fail fail fail on so many levels.

Problem #2 – Profiteering (forgetting about the game and gameplay and going for profit (they have forgotten they’re making – not the only dev company guilty of this))

BF3 Premium Content is just more of that, a very popular shooter and they decide to segregate the BF community – only BF fanboys (or folks with daddy’s credit card) have bought it so far. The first DLC – Close Combat or whatever is simply CoD in another game… you really think this is worth £50?! Muppets.

When will EA realise the cash cow isn’t always the only way to make money.

Just look at this huge list of games EA published in 2011/2012. Mostly utter gash.link to g4tv.com